Trust Guinness World Records to put our New Year's goals to shame. Take the new “Guinness World Records 2014 Gamer's Edition” ($14.99). Its bevy of mind-boggling video game scores and other achievements make both our resolutions and “Candy Crush Saga” progress look ever so sad.

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Think you rock “Angry Birds”? Swiss gamer “bastieroxxor” flicked fowl to a record high score of 42,610,510. And if you thought you had the beat with dance games, “exergaming” ambassador Carrie Swidecki stomped out a record marathon 49 hours, 3 minutes and 22 seconds on “Just Dance 4.”

At least your “Candy Crush” misery has plenty of company if you play it on Facebook. According to Guinness World Records, as of September 2013, the Facebook version of the game had 133.6 million monthly average users, the most for a game.

Guess “Orange is the New Black” looks just as good from the treadmill as from the couch. Netflix surveyed 1,000 U.S. Internet users and found more than half would exercise while binge watching in 2014.

Netflix said binge watching the first season of “Orange” (724 minutes) would burn 4,995 calories on a treadmill set to 4 mph with no incline. Of course, you could probably shed those calories even faster if you just pretend Pennsatucky is chasing you.

Facebook still rules

As if we needed more proof Facebook dominates our adulthood. A good 71 percent of online adults now use Facebook, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center's Internet Project for its Social Media Update 2013.

Even your grandpa and grandma are doing it. The survey said some 45 percent of Internet users ages 65 and older use Facebook, up from 35 percent in late 2012.

The other major social networking platforms don't even come close to Facebook's like-atude. Only 22 percent of online adults surveyed use LinkedIn, 21 percent use Pinterest, 18 percent use Twitter and 17 percent use Instagram.

It's just tech, people

And so, as we engage in this new year sure to glow with new consumer technology, let us take a moment to put all those shiny new gadgets in perspective. Or to quote Walt Mossberg, “Your favorite tech hardware, software and services are not religious objects.”

The former personal technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal preaches as much in a commentary for the newly launched tech news and reviews site Re/code (recode.net), where he's co-executive editor. The gist of his sermon: Enjoy your tech, but calm the heck down and stop hating on those who don't share your love of the same operating system or device.